1. Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As certainly as the Lord God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”
2. The Lord told him:
3. “Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
4. Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.”
5. So he did as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
6. The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.
7. After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
8. The Lord told him,
9. “Get up, go to Zarephath in Sidonian territory, and live there. I have already told a widow who lives there to provide for you.”
10. So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink.”
11. As she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”